saying that you respect it is not really tell us what you are edenceto do with pres you think is wrong. -- you talked about testifying, how did judge bork affect this? guest: he answered questions candidly. some people would say he was unfairly defeated, some would say appropriately, because his judicial philosophy was so extreme. and since then, people do not talk about things as candidly as judge bork did. i think the impact actually is much more subtle than that, because in the years following his nomination, through 1995 the nominees did speak candidly about the judicial philosophy and what they thought. what changed after judge bork was the attitude of many about what they other side, for lack of a better word, is willing to do about nominees that they do not like. on the right, judge bork is something of a rallying cry. people believed that what happened to him was unfair and it began a process of degrading the confirmation process, making it politicized. that is not historically accurate. if you look back at what happened to say justice fortis or marshall in their hearings, ther

saying that you respect it is not really tell us what you are edenceto do with pres you think is wrongou talked about testifying, how did judge bork affect this? guest: he answered questions candidly. some people would say he was unfairly defeated, some would say appropriately, because his judicial philosophy was so extreme. and since then, people do not talk about things as candidly as judge bork did. i think the impact actually is much more subtle than that, because in the years following his nomination, through 1995 the nominees did speak candidly about the judicial philosophy and what they thought. what changed after judge bork was the attitude of many about what they other side, for lack of a better word, is willing to do about nominees that they do not like. on the right, judge bork is something of a rallying cry. people believed that what happened to him was unfair and it began a process of degrading the confirmation process, making it politicized. that is not historically accurate. if you look back at what happened to say justice fortis or marshall in their hearings, there was